José Luis Anzizar

In Elsie del Río Arte Contemporáneo, his images approach an ideal city, perhaps viewed from above. They seem to have been thought from a vantage point, overflying the design and the spontaneous and institutional ornaments of a grand metropolis that the artist imagines colorful and organic, logical and disorganized. The atmosphere suggested by his collages and papers manipulated with threads is that of a merry coexistence between his gaze along real roads and the structures that he hopefully imagines.

A self-taught artist, Anzizar renders on large format papers forms and textures that narrate the story of a tangled, hectic metropolis, full of stickers and graffiti on its walls, LED lights that scatter multicolored glitters and crazy evening traffic. The design of streets and sidewalks, highways and railways is outlined by dense vegetation; flowers and details of colors which reveal his love for cities rather than uneasiness for the complicated Latin American urban conglomerates. Is he announcing a possible Buenos Aires?